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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:43 am 
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because the pedders around my area havnt had the courtesy to get back to 3 emails in a month.

anyways im looking at getting lows all around and to get them fitted, im in upwey in melbourne which is i guess around the boronia bayswater area.

any reccomendations and prices if you could to :)

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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:34 am 
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The springs alone will cost around $220-$250 for the fronts and rears. It only takes around 2-3 hrs to change them. Seeing your only going lows you wont need to replace shocks or camber kit. Im sure someone on here could assist you. Im in Mulgrave and could do it for you. But what brand of springs are you after? I went Dobinson after trying Kings, im very pleased with Dobinsons as the kings were too harsh.
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:06 am 
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The springs alone will cost around $220-$250 for the fronts and rears. It only takes around 2-3 hrs to change them. Seeing your only going lows you wont need to replace shocks or camber kit. Im sure someone on here could assist you. Im in Mulgrave and could do it for you. But what brand of springs are you after? I went Dobinson after trying Kings, im very pleased with Dobinsons as the kings were too harsh.


he'll probably need a camber kit eventually, i lowered mine using tickford springs and the camber still ended up being out.

yeah changing springs is easy if you've got the room and compressors, I've heard good things about Dobinsons, Kings suck IMO.
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:21 am 
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is there a site for dobinson springs? ill have a looksy
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:01 pm 
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Heres a thread i did on Dobinson springs a few months ago.

http://www.fordmods.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36068

And heres the site for Dobinson Springs

http://www.dobinsonsprings.com/site/

A shim type camber/castor kit will set you back around $120 a pair and is easy to install, then after just have the wheel alignment done.
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Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:51 pm 
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Yeah i heard the pedders in FTG dont have very good service either.
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:30 am 
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Yeah i heard the pedders in FTG dont have very good service either.


Pedders are s**t. they just paint other products red then charge you a fortune for it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:47 am 
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They actually as they say have other companies make products to pedders specs but yes they do charge a fortune!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:28 am 
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he will definatly need a camber kit. mines is only on lows, but we also done the springs too. the bloke told us he fitted a camber kit, but my front tyres are worn pretty badly on the insides..... after only 15,000km!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:24 pm 
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If its the inner on both sides its more likely to be toe out rather than camber/castor. The toe does change with height, even 1mm of toe out can scrub tyres.
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:31 pm 
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Soulfire wrote:
Tiga_EL wrote:
Yeah i heard the pedders in FTG dont have very good service either.


Pedders are s**t. they just paint other products red then charge you a fortune for it.


I didnt know that. i thought they charged a s**t load coz all their stuff was good quality.
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